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Online Gallery features:
Karen Stanton
June 1, 2005 through June 30, 2005
- Born in Southern California and raised in the Chicago Area. Came back to California 20 years ago to go to graduate school at Cal Berkeley in Architecture, and never left.
- Have four kids aged 17, 14, 13 and 4.
- Worked for several years as an architect in the East Bay doing residential design. But didn't find the joy in it that I found in architecture school or in my internships where I designed a gingerbread high rise, a Barcalounger chair, and images for Swid Powell china.
- In the mid 90s, I took my first class in children's book writing. And began making art that still sells in galleries around the country.
- After several years of classes and lots of waffling between the then male-dominant career of architecture and the female-dominant work of writing for children, I made the commitment to books.
- As my 40th birthday loomed, I buckled down to the serious pursuit of finding a publisher for my picture book. Three months later I sold my first book Mr. K and Yudi which I wrote and illustrated.
- On my 40th birthday, I had lunch in Manhattan, with my publisher and the art director for my book!
- The book came out in spring 2001 with Children's Golden Books (who soon after were bought by Random House.)
- My second book Papi's Gift will be coming out next year with Boyds Mills Press.
- I am currently working on two middle grade novels and a few picture books. Last year I took over teaching a class on children's writing, illustration and publishing at CCSF for my friend and fellow illustrator Mira Reisberg. And I found that I love teaching.
Karen Stanton's children's writing, illustration and publishing at CCSF
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Archive: Previous artists presented in this Online Gallery
| Nancy Barnett | North/Central | April 2003 |
| Carol Benioff | East Bay | May 2003 |
| Cindy Ann Ganaden | South San Francisco | June2003 |
| Deborah Nourse Lattimore | North/Central | July 2003 |
| Sara Iravani Kahn | South San Francisco | September 2003 |
| Elisa Kleven | North/Central | October 2003 |
| Jan Adkins | North/Central | November 2003 |
| Joy Allen | North/Central | December 2003 |
| Yuyi Morales | East Bay | January 2004 |
| Liz Cunningham | East Bay | February 2004 |
| Brooke Scudder | South San Francisco | March 2004 |
| Paula Pertile | South San Francisco | April 2004 |
| South San Francisco | May 2004 | |
| South San Francisco | July 2004 | |
| Kris Aro McLeod | North/Central | August 2004 |
| Sherry Rogers | North/Central | September 2004 |
| Barbara Pollak | East Bay | October 2004 |
| Kirsten Carlson | North/Central | November 2004 |
| Jeff Jackson | South San Francisco | December 2004 |
| Elly Simmons | North/Central | January 2005 |
| Bob Barner | South San Francisco | February 2005 |
| Lea Lyon | East Bay | March 2005 |
| Lin Wang | South San Francisco | April 2005 |
| Kieren Dutcher | East Bay | May 2005 |
| Karen Stanton | South San Francisco | June 2005 |
Artist and illustrators previous school visits
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